Replace them all with 6ft tall Etch-a-Sketches (erm...(tm)?). With two giant, oversized comedy dials to control the drawing. Just think of the
fun when people try and draw curves!

Picture the scene in a hushed office in Wall Street, corporate survival on the line-
"Okay people, these are the estimates for turnover Q4...hold on, I just have to ...uegh...DAMMIT...slowly There! Now onto profitability...bear with me"

Croissant for the mental image of smart-suited execs shaking a six-foot etch-a-sketch. You could link this up to other stuff though, so people in the meeting could have individual etch-consoles, with which they could contribute to the display: ghostly appearances of lines all over. And I have seen a whiteboard which prints out onto fax paper - link that functionality in, and you're onto a winner.

But the worry is that with the introduction of technology comes the ability to cheat. some kind of printing extension would be good but we must ensure that drawings cannot be loaded or transferred - they must kept on the 'sketch or DRAWN AGAIN!!

where would we all be without a ped (pesonal etchasketch device)? Soon there would be laws prohibiting using them while driving, although maybe we'd drive slower in an effort not to accidentaly shake our work.

The Giant Etch-a-Sketch was invisaged before the creativity of [AO] was unveiled. As long as the etch-a-sketch in question is oversized, cumbersome and brings a chuckle to the boardroom, I am more than happy for the angular, R-Theta model to be under this umbrella.

I would however stipulate that the rectangular type be used for pie-charts and the R-theta style be used for block diagrams.